From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <13426df11003072049h47154430i30ffb529a1d73601@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 22:17:03 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject) From: Russ Cox To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: e3b01c94-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> I still like to point people at plan 9 ports as an example of a >> complex system that gets by without this *conf* nonsense. > > It falls over just enough to be attacked. =C2=A0Otherwise, p9p source wou= ld > have been ported back to Plan 9 in its entirety. =C2=A0It's a shame, > really, and with some work it could be fixed, but some of that work is > design work. There is already a tool to port plan9port code back to Plan 9. See cp(1). Russ